German universities rushed to sever ties with persecuted colleagues rather than defend them

Evidence

The Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung reported on 14 April the first measures undertaken in Prussia to implement the Act of 7 April on the Reconstruction of the Professional Civil Service'. The Act was intended above all to provide for the dismissal of Jewish, Communist and Social Democratic civil servants. Among the victims of the first batch of suspensions’ (dismissal from state service and discontinuation of salary payments were to follow in the course of the year) were the Frankfurt professors Heller, Horkheimer, Löwe, Mannheim, Sinzheimer and Tillich. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 520 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Postwar German academics ostracized colleagues who documented Nazi crimes and right-wing violence.; The 1933 Civil Service Law purged Jewish and leftist academics from German universities — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 520

Broader Connections

• The 1933 Civil Service Law purged Jewish and leftist academics from German universities #exemplifies (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 520
• Postwar German academics ostracized colleagues who documented Nazi crimes and right-wing violence. #corroborates (0.75)